Dr. Sheila Rajagopal received her M.D. at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, during which she also received an M.P.H. in quantitative methods with a focus on genetic epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her internal medicine residency training at the University of Pittsburgh, a fellowship in hematology/oncology, and an additional fellowship year focused on cancer genetics at the University of Chicago, where she received an M.Sc. in biomedical informatics. She is currently a physician-scientist early investigator at the National Cancer Institute, where her lab studies how genetic data collected in routine oncology (including inherited and tumor sequencing) can be better used to refine predicting response to cancer treatment and patient outcomes.

She is also an alumnus of our Get That Grant® coaching program!

Listenin as we delve into Sheila's journey, her unique areas of expertise, and the valuable insights she gained from coaching:

• Navigating major challenges in the job search
• A significant breakthrough in the coaching program that involved identifying her “resistance mechanisms”
• How she adopted an iterative approach to personal development and detaching from the notion of personal failure as a high achiever
• How setting aside Get That Grant® time on her schedule even post-program allows her to continue implementing the coaching tools and practices in her daily life

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